SANI ABACHA, THE ROGUE MIDGET OF KANO STATE AND A SON NAMED ABBA!

A snake never fails to beget a long thing and so it is that a thieving army general and a father begot a thieving wayward son. Like his notorious father, the midget of Kano State, Sani Abacha, his son Abba Abacha is now a confirmed crook and a rouge! His loot, $350 million dollars stolen from Nigerian coffers with the aid of his father and stashed away in bank vaults, in far away Luxembourg and the Bahamas.

Icheoku have always suspected that behind those dark sun-shades eye-goggles, which later became his trade-mark, lies a pair of weasel-eyes of a criminal military dictator, who found a lucrative hobby, looting Nigeria until a well orchestrated death caught up with him. Thanks to his nemesis in the form of two Indian escorts, who seduced their way into his love-nest; a hideout inside Aso Rock unbeknownst to his wife, the Lebanese born Maryam Abacha, matriarch of the Chagori construction family who bore him nine children. The two Delilahs offered him their luscious bodies, but first a dose of poisoned Viagra pills? Their lecherous rendezvous was interrupted midway with a gasping for air, fainting Sani Abacha; who, before the summoned Aso Rock medics could arrive, had gone into irreversible cardiac arrest and the rest is now history.

According to the late former Senator, NPN secretary and a Minister of Labor under Sani Abacha's regime, Uba Ahmed, Sani Abacha was killed by some foreign agents because of his unyielding stance and died moments after taking the laced pills? The same agents blackmailed Abdulsalam's succeeding regime into releasing their killer-agents, who were never formally arrested or charged or prosecuted for the death of a sitting Nigerian head of state? It would appear also that the Indian Ladies not only introduced those poisoned pills to Abacha, but they also turned him to the Indian passion of chemically lightening his skin complexion? This Michael Jackson changing-colors syndrome scheme was sold to Sani Abacha, who bought it hook, line and sinker and the result was immediate. It suggests that Abacha had been having his illicit liaison with these ladies long before the foreign vipers seized the opportunity and took him out. Take a good look at the two composite pictures top left and here right following, which shows two different shades of the same despicable midget of Kano State:- one is his natural Kano intensive sun black-arse skin and the other his Indian chemically-induced lightened skin complexion? A chemical peel-off which evaporated his melanin leaving his skin paler and sickly looking. Icheoku says, what a Michael Jackson of Kano State, Nigeria, this man was!

Now about eleven odd years after he was murdered, one of his protege-son, Abba Abacha, has been found guilty by a Geneva judge of being a member of a criminal organisation engaged in money laundering, especially of Nigeria's national treasury and the state's assets. According to the investigating judge, Yves Aeschlimann, such criminality cannot go unpunished; hence he ordered the seizure of the $350 million belonging to Abba Abacha which were lodged in bank vaults in Luxembourg and the Bahamas. The judge also imposed a suspended prison sentence on the mini-Abacha. It will be recalled that another one of his son, 28 year old Ibrahim Abacha, was roasted to his painful death in a plane crash in Kano in January 1996, courtesy of sabotage by an underground resistance group, the United Front for Nigeria's Liberation? This was meant to serve as a warning shot to a ravaging murderous beast Sani Abacha, but he hearkened not and instead went full throttle against his perceived enemies until the Indian girls arrived to pull off what no Nigerian dissident could hitherto accomplish?

Icheoku says, Abba Abacha is a good understudy of his father, a father who between 1993 and his murder in 1998, looted about $3 billion dollars from the coffers of Nigeria; being money which belonged to the Nigeria state and which this midget selfishly plundered for his family's private use? Sani Abacha, a despicable druggie whose notoriety was so widely spread, that a newspaper in far away United Stated of America dubbed him the 'beacon of brutality?' A taciturn pint-sized urchin, who hated daylight so much during his despotic stranglehold on Nigeria, that the few times he ever ventured outside his holed-in Aso Rock, his eyes were perfectly blanketed from the light with the aid of some over-sized dark goggles. He was also a reputed nocturnal bat, who only comes out when others are sleeping; and went to his office for whatever is left of the business of Nigeria only at dusk? He also never gave interviews nor spoke publicly about anything to any journalist or news media? It is also on record that due to his volatility, instability and unsuitability for any higher command, his military superiors had recommended way back in 1971 that he should never be promoted above the rank of a colonel. But the powers that be in Nigeria however ignored the ominous warning and Nigeria paid dearly and a hefty prize with his misadventure into power in Nigeria!

Sani Abacha notoriously participated in three coups in Nigeria and with Ibrahim Babangida and Muhammadu Buhari were responsible for the comatose state Nigeria is in today! Their respective lacklustre, destabilising usurpation of power in Nigeria messed up things so much that their effects are still lingering on and being seriously felt today, several years since the last of the Mahican, Sani Abacha was killed? His first tag-team coup with Babangida and Buhari was against Shehu Shagari which installed Buhari as head of state; his second coup was against Buhari which made way for Babangida; and then the third and last coup against Ernest Shonekan for himself to mount the saddle as head of state? He was also fingered as the man who harassed the daylight out of IBB and forced him to annul the June 12 1993 MKO Abiola election? He also jailed MKO Abiola, Olusegun Obasanjo and Shehu Yar'Adua, the elder brother of the present Nigeria president who was killed in prison on his orders. Ken Saro Wiwa was also killed by Abacha. He imprisoned so many labor officials, journalists, politicians bankers and human-rights activists. His instrument of cohesion was brute terror! In short, Sani Abacha was the first terrorist-in-chief ever known to Nigerians before the advent of Osama Bin Laden on September 11, 1999 who suddenly beclouded his notoriety. Sani Abacha's decrees put his despotic regime above and beyond every Nigeria's law courts reach and permitted his preventive detention project. He also shut down three major Nigerian newspapers for their editorial contents which he deemed not favorable? It was Sani Abacha who also desecrated the Sokoto Sultanate when he deposed and jailed the former sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, who is still exiled from the Sokoto Caliphate till date. Icheoku however commends this demystification of the Sultanate, which hitherto projected an untouchable status? Anyway back to the stinky resume`of the midget of Kano State, Mallam Sani Abacha!

Around March 1995, Sani Abacha killed 300 military officers and 40 civilians based on a trumped-up coup, which he alleged his regime had squelched? On October 1, 1995, 40 other Nigerians including Olusegun Obasanjo and Shehu Yar'Adua, who were also implicated in the phantom coup had their death convictions for treason reduced to life sentences. It was his 25 years to life term in prison that Olusegun Obasanjo was serving until providence presented itself and some foreign secret agents found a way to poison Sani Abacha; wherein Obasanjo was released from prison only to become himself the worst president Nigerians have ever had? Shehu Yar'Adua was less fortunate as Abacha's honchos got to him with their cyanide while Abacha was still alive and before any plea for mercy could be heard? It is also instructive that Ken Saro Wiwa was hanged by Sani Abacha in the same year 1995, precisely on November 10, 1995. Sani Abacha was also allegedly involved in drug-trafficking, which he probably learnt from his mentor Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida; a notorious drug-trafficker who had to kill one of his couriers, Grace Okon, whose death's investigation led to the parcel-bombing to death of journalist Dele Giwa which stopped cold his prying inquisitive eyes? Sani Abacha also broke up then outgoing American Ambassador to Nigeria, Walter Carrington's farewell party in Lagos, using the instrumentality of his Lagos State police terror-machine, under the supervison of a now Kirikiri inmate, then Commissioner of Police James Danbaba? Abacha's atrocious regime was so stifling and overwhelming that Icheoku wonders how any Nigerian ever survived such a hellish despotism!

In one commentator's description of the madness that was Sani Abacha's regime, he wrote, "General Sani Abacha ruled Nigeria with an iron fist for some five years. He banned all dissent. He arrested, tortured, imprisoned and when it suited his fancy, killed dissidents. Those he killed included pastors of souls, who as much as remotely condemned his inhumanity in their Sunday sermons. When Abacha died on June 6, 1998, there was popular rejoicing in the land, coming in some cases, from those who had prodded him on, to stay in power for life. His death was meaningful in a way. It changed the political landscape of Africa’s largest nation for good. His death meant that there would be a halt to the indiscriminate violation of human rights and the outright raping of the national psyche. Abacha does not live in the hearts of decent people. Nigerians and others, mourned him with dry cheeks." Icheoku says, what a well written piece of precise reference on the despicable, despotic midget of Kano State, Sani 'Madman' Abacha! May his soul never rest in peace!

Lastly, Nigerians should principally blame the evil-genius, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida for the curse of Sani Abacha! IBB had the time and opportunity to retire Abacha from the Nigerian army but instead choose to leave him behind as a defence minister in other to facilitate and bring about the agreed coup of 1993. Icheoku says, if IBB had retired Abacha when other military henchmen of his regime were let go during his, IBB's infamous stepping aside, how on earth would Nigerians have experienced the murderous nemesis called Sani Abacha? So Nigerians should be mad at the right target, Ibrahim Babangida for the evils of Sani Abacha! And as for his thieving son Abba Abacha, what can Icheoku tell you except that Nigeria is a country on a precipice, teeming with crooks and looters of the national treasury; - a country of who can out-loot the other. What a shame!